Why knights fought snails in medieval art
Why knights fought snails in medieval art
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Why knights fought snails in medieval art
Snails are delicious.
-Me: But there is no such thing as giant snails….
-Medieval Knights: You’re welcome.
And we thought we invented memes, turns out memes are hundreds of years old
TL:DR
Medieval Artist: “LoL, snails”.
Basically, memes of the past.
Wow, didn’t expect to find this interesting.
Does anyone know the name of the song that starts around 03:08?
The question was asked on /r/AskHistorians a while back. Heres the [thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3tva6h/why_are_there_so_many_medieval_paintings_of/).
Makes you wonder if people should be documenting their memes for future historians.
My guess of Medieval Memes wasn’t far off after all.
Reminded me of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2F_hGwD26g).
Game of Thrones related trivia. There is a prequel series to the books that the HBO show is based on. In the series the protagonist’s first real tournament opponent is a guy named Underleaf with a snail on his shield. He’s also described by the main character as more merchant than knight, though he does thoroughly trounce our hero in their joust. Martin is apparently a huge history buff and has a specific penchant for illuminated texts, so he was likely fully aware of this.
So could this be the oldest widespread meme then?
I say we bring it back.
Why did they need almost five minutes to suggest one possibility and then say nothing else concrete?
I hate… the way that vox people….. speak. really….. annoying
also; dicks
I didn’t know I was fascinated with why knights fought snails but apparently I am.
Decoy snail
I didn’t watch the video but assuming Vox found a way to link it to racism? If not well done Vox!
TIL that [medieval snails](http://i.imgur.com/rqdvKp2.png) had [rune scimitars](https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/runescape2/images/6/68/Rune_scimitar_detail_old2.png).
I always assumed it was because of the discovery of large ammonite fossils..
I thought it might have go do with snails eating paper. The only true adversary the pagelings have is the snail, so they’re constantly fighting it to preserve the authors work.
So they have a guess, but they are not really sure.
Hollywood will try to reboot this, i give it two years tops
Anybody know the spelling of that thing he mentioned at the end? I’ve tried all kinds of weird combinations (Grillis, Grylis, Gryls etc) but I can’t find anything about it.
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Watch this video on 1.5 speed. He speaks very slowly.
I swear I remember seeing a [LindeyBeige](https://www.youtube.com/user/lindybeige) Video on the same subject but for the life of me cannot find it in the list
So the answer is “We do not know”?
A bunch of men sworn to celibacy spend all their free time doodling snails in the borders of their work. I wonder what they where thinking about.
Just to end the snails rightly.
The big problem I have with videos like this is simply that they take up 5 minutes of your time rather inexpertly trying to explain something that you can read for yourself in 20 seconds.
They could have done something really interesting with this, as visual imagery *was* the common social language of the day, not written Latin or French.
This one is a little more interesting, imo. [St. Christopher was a dog?](http://imgur.com/a/RuavM)
The editing in this video is so shit its terrible
90% chance this work is plagiarized straight from the /r/askhistorians post about it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3tva6h/why_are_there_so_many_medieval_paintings_of/
ANTMAN
>vox
I’m skeptical of the accuracy of this information.
What is this manner of speaking that is so popular on youtube nowadays? The drawl, the long pause between words, excessive emphasis… It’s nothing but annoying. I know about vocal fry, but none of the names of the others.
In short; Racism.
He look watered down buzz feed
Save you a click. Mid evil manuscripts were the dank memes of their time.
so, memes were used before it was popular?
so, memes were used before it was popular?
Oooooh so it was a form of racism. Cool ?. Seriously, It really is cool to know that now. Not cool that it’s racism. Like I don’t condone that at all. Snails are wonderful creatures. I have lots of friends that are snails.